From prodigal daughter to billionaire heiress? The discovery that corporate mogul Lincoln Du Bois had left her half his company rocked Deidre Kavanaugh's world. After all she'd only just learned that the billionaire could be her real father. & with his right-hand man Nick Malone up in arms claiming her share of the inheritance wouldn't be easy. Charismatic tycoon Nick Malone had his doubts about Deidre's paternity claim but it was hard to remain aloof when all he wanted to do was kiss her! Nick couldn't seem to stop wanting to protect the rebellious beauty
- or silence the desire to make her his own. & if her claim was true Nick could lose half his inheritance. So why was he focusing on what he could gain...a lifetime of love with the woman of his dreams?
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If one is a snail & two is a person... we must be counting by feet! Children will love this hilariously illustrated introduction to simple counting & multiplication with big feet & small
- on people & spiders dogs & insects snails & crabs
- from one to one hundred!

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An escaped convict threatens more than the summer tourist trade in the gripping fifth thriller featuring Detectives Fry & Cooper. Today was the day Detective Constable Ben Cooper was supposed to have died. For practical purposes he was already dead. Fourteen years ago Mansell Quinn was jailed for murdering his mistress. Now he has escaped & is on the run hiding amongst the Peak Districts many summer tourists. When Quinns ex-wife is found dead DC Cooper & his tough boss DS Fry suspect it is only a matter of time before another victim is found. & Cooper
- as the son of Quinns arresting officer
- is high on the list. As they desperately search the case files for clues & the death toll rises darker possibilities emerge. Are the killings the work of a deranged killer who cannot be found
- or a desperate man wrongly convicted?


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Watching her child die is the hardest thing a mother can ever do. But for Kay Gilderdale saying a final goodbye to her only daughter Lynn was exceptionally painful: shed played a part in her death. Lynn was just 14 when she was struck down by the crippling disease ME leaving her paralysed & in constant agony. Over the next 17 years she became desperate to escape her miserable existence even begging her mum to help her die. So one night when Kay found Lynn attempting suicide she was forced to make an impossible decision. Continue watching her child suffer or help her end the pain? Eventually fighting her every instinct Kay helped her precious daughter take a fatal overdose. But while Lynn was finally free her mother faced a fresh agony
- a possible lifetime behind bars. The highly controversial trial that followed opened a fierce public debate on assisted suicide. Is it murder or mercy? Here in her heartbreaking story Kay reveals the harrowing truth behind the headlines & the desperate lengths a mother will go to for the love of a child.
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Meet Silver. Forty-four divorced & living alone. His once celebrated music career is now a faded memory & his ex-wife is about to marry another man. The only good thing in Silver's life is his Princeton-bound teenage daughter Casey
- & she would probably say the exact opposite about him. So in Silver's opinion things could be going better.. .a lot better. Then Casey drops a bombshell: she's pregnant. Yes it was her first time & no she hasn't told her mom. Silver knows things have got to change & when he discovers he has a fatal heart condition that means he could drop dead at any minute he decides it's time to make a list: 1. Be a better father 2. Be a better man 3. Fall in love 4. Die But the question is can Silver rebuild his life regain the respect of his family & be there for Casey when she needs him most or has he left it all too late? Laugh-out-loud funny & tear-jerkingly sad One Last Thing Before I Go is a testament to Jonathan Tropper's impeccable observation faultless style & utterly unrivalled wit.
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One little baby in a cosy baby bed one little baby with a busy day ahead. Here is a book for every baby about every baby's day. From breakfast to playtime & story-time too this is an enchanting interactive baby book full of hugs kisses tickles & lots of talk about all the daily activities that babies love. With a lilting lyrical rhyme this is a perfect book for sharing at bedtime. ...

If I'd really been serious about getting to grips with my mid-life crisis then I'd have been better opting for a course of therapy than going off travelling. Or if I had to travel I'd have been better opting for somewhere warm with a beach! In an attempt to get to grips with a Big birthday Steve sets out from Oxford to explore what makes the English! well so English. His quirky humour is inspired by Tom Rolt who took to the canals on a similar journey immortalised in the book Narrow Boat" kick-starting the revival of Britain's waterways. Prepare for a generous helping of mayhem mishaps & the staple of every English summer: torrential rain. First published as " Fruit Flies Like a Banana" this revised edition with new material is published to coincide with the 70-year anniversary of Tom Rolt's own classic trip." ...

What would happen if you were cycling to the office & just kept on pedalling? Needing a change Mike Carter did just that. Following the Thames to the sea he embarked on an epic 5 000 mile ride around the entire British coastline
- the equivalent of London to Calcutta. He encountered drunken priests drag queens & gnome sanctuaries. He met fellow travellers & people building for a different type of future. He also found a spirit of unbelievable kindness & generosity that convinced him that Britain is anything but broken. This is the inspiring & very funny tale of the five months Mike spent cycling the byways of the nation.
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Robert Fulton's legendary journey began in 1932 when he set out on his Douglas twin motorcycle for an eighteen-month odyssey that included Turkey Syria Iraq Afghanistan India Sumatra Malaysia Siam Indonesia China & Japan -- challenging destinations that even today would give pause to the most world-weary traveller. His customised bike had an extra large fuel tank a secret hiding place for his. 32 revolver & enough room in his luggage for a motion-picture camera & 40 000 feet of film. His entertaining detailed story tells of falling from a bridge in Turkey being held up by hundreds of robbers in Waziristan put in jail as a smuggler in Indonesia & being escorted across Japan by 33 motorcycles. You will discover a fascinating part of our world that's been lost forever. ...

A Wonder Woman & bride-to-be finds herself worse for wear at the end of a hen night; a funeral directors love of Manchester United proves unhelpful when talking to the bereaved; two overly-vigilant mothers wrestle with their paranoia in the queue for Santas Grotto; a widow recounts her disastrous return to the world of dating & a father realises that his son is growing away from him as he helps him tie his football boots. In these snippets of overheard conversations from across the length & breadth of the country Craig Taylor captures the state were in with humour & pathos & perfect timing. Laugh-out-loud funny & sometimes heartbreakingly moving these tiny plays in which every one of us could have a starring role are little windows into other peoples lives that reveal the triumphs disasters prejudices horrors & joys of twenty-first-century life. Hugely entertaining & utterly addictive this is book that can be dipped into or feasted upon in one sitting. It will change the way you listen to the world around you & train journeys will never be the same again. ...